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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the Universe is winning.

Baggy...sorry to hear that your having problems with Elizabeth's site...hopefully it will clear up soonish, so that you can go and read what she's up to these days.

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"To the Horsehead Nebula and back we shall make beautiful music"..."Together!"

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression,and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cut out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived........Howard Pyle

Does it actually get that kind of hot in Scotland...that a fan is needed?

I don't know why, but I just can't imagine that kind of heat there...cold yes...but not heat!!!

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"To the Horsehead Nebula and back we shall make beautiful music"..."Together!"

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression,and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cut out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived........Howard Pyle

Right, due to Elizabeth having had Mexican flu (I use the Dutch term as I refuse to use the term 'swine flu' in combination with such a kind, generous and beautiful woman; yes dear I know you're blushing now, it suits you) which also took a goodly time of recuperation, it has been quiet of late on the news page of her website.

Oh, my friends, I just have to tell someone! (Well, Steven knows already, but he's asleep!)

I have finally heard her. Lanen. She has been so long silent I feared that she had deserted me altogether and I was going to have to send this book in with no more than a distant echo of her voice. I have finally heard her, tonight, and she is strong and opinionated (as usual!) and so very much herself.

I know I probably sound insane, but oh, I am so hugely relieved! Shame there's not a 'dances in bliss' smilie... tra la!

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That which you do by act of will you must answer for.
-from Winds of Change and Shaping, by Elizabeth Kerner

Thanks folks. Me too, eann, I was so scared. I bet REAL writers don't get scared that their characters have buggered off forever...do they? I mean, do you? Or is it just because I'm still fairly new at this lark...?

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That which you do by act of will you must answer for.
-from Winds of Change and Shaping, by Elizabeth Kerner

Sometimes you sort of need to interview them, Elizabeth, and ask them what they think about this or that happening. Or reread what they've said earlier. But what are you talking about, "real writers"? You ought to know what real writers do because you are one. Series are hard, especially when there's years between books.

thanks eann - because of the large hiatus between my last book and this lot, I stopped thinking of myself as a writer. However, after this last weekend of intense plotting with a pal down in Reading, I no longer have that qualm! And I 'heard' from a character I completely had not anticipated - like a news flash, while I was sitting on a bus in the English countryside for goodness' sake! Whee!

Thanks, Ginny, I'm feeling much better.

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That which you do by act of will you must answer for.
-from Winds of Change and Shaping, by Elizabeth Kerner

After the horrible time at the end of last year and the first month of this one, a time in which Elizabeth battled that old sly dragon we call flu, she regained her strength, refound her humour and restarted keeping us poor readers informed about progress and the odd happenings in the life of one of our favourite authors. Those homely and interesting bits we so love to read about and about which every author I know thinks that we cannot possibly be interested in them...

So a mere few weeks later resuming the updates on her website our dear Lanen is back with a March installment you shouldn't miss! Read all about Elizabeth's amazing tessitura that might help shape the melodic contour of the new Kolmar books and will certainly contribute and lend it's strength to the texture of Elizabeth's writing.

Did I get you curious?
Then, stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once.